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* [[Potassium Chloride]] - a drug that causes the [[heart]] to cease beating.

* [[Potassium Chloride]] - a drug that causes the [[heart]] to cease beating.

Lethal injection was first used on December 7, 1982, when Charlie Brooks was executed in [[Texas]]. [http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm]

Lethal injection was first used on December 7, 1982, when Charlie Brooks was executed in [[Texas]]. <ref>http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm</ref>

Death by lethal injection has not traditionally been believed to be painful as the inmate will go to sleep prior to the [[death]]-inducing drugs being pumped in their veins, however, recent medical findings have called this into question. [http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/264/story/19957.html] Lethal injection is the preferred method for executions in the [[United States]].  It is also used in [[Japan]] and [[Arab]] countries{{fact}}, and has also been used in [[Guatemala]] and the [[Philippines]]. [http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/injection.html]

Death by lethal injection has not traditionally been believed to be painful as the inmate will go to sleep prior to the death-inducing drugs being pumped in their veins, however, recent medical findings have called this into question. <ref>http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/264/story/19957.html</ref> In September, 2007, the [[Supreme Court]] agreed to hear a case over whether [[Kentucky]]'s three-drug lethal injection procedure violates the Eighth Amendent to the Constitution by constituting cruel and unusual punishment. Several other states have postponed all executions until this case is resolved, although [[Texas]], which executes far more criminals than any other state, has not placed a moratorium on executions. <ref>http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070930/29513_Is_Lethal_Injection_'Cruel_and_Unusual'%3F.htm</ref>

 

Lethal injection is the preferred method for executions in the [[United States]].  It has also been used in [[China]], [[Guatemala]] and the [[Philippines]]. <ref>http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/injection.html</ref>

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